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To: miss marmelstein
Of course you’re right. This is the problem with some on the right - they are fine with censorship as long as it’s the right type of person being censored or disappeared. I’m not a particular fan of Jackson’s either but it is outrageous that the BBC would do this

It's quite likely that Lewis Carroll and Robert Baden Powell were pedophiles - their obsessions with young girls and boys, respectively, was obviously unhealthy and abnormal (the degree to which they acted on those impulses is debatable). That doesn't mean that Alice in Wonderland isn't a fun book for children of all ages, or that the Boy Scouts wasn't an institution that did much social good until its recent takeover by the PC police. I have absolutely no use for Jackson or his music, but if his music is banned because of his deviant behavior, who's next on the chopping block?

Hoard your music now

A couple of years ago there was a thread where people on this site applauded the ban on public performances of Wagner's music in Israel and implied that it should be banned in other countries (including the US) as well. Basically the same kind of idiocy at work.

44 posted on 03/04/2019 6:44:26 AM PST by ek_hornbeck
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To: ek_hornbeck

Just to remind everyone: there is no evidence that Lewis Carroll was a “child molester.” Some of his photographic subjects lived well into the 20th century - as did the adopted sons of JM Barrie - and all denied that these men were perverts.

Carroll’s photographs are brilliant and striking. The 19th century did not coddle children as is done in the 21st. But they did romanticize them.


47 posted on 03/04/2019 6:54:56 AM PST by miss marmelstein
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